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Continuity and Change at Raiford

Continuity and Change at Raiford

Chapter:

(p.188)
7 Continuity and Change at Raiford

Source:

Hard Labor and Hard Time

Author(s):

Vivien M. L. Miller

Publisher:

University Press of Florida

DOI:10.5744/florida/9780813039855.003.0008

Chapters 7, 8, and 9 focus largely on the experiences of Grade 2 inmates at Raiford prison farm during the 1930s and 1940s. This chapter examines official efforts to prolong commercial farming as an integral part of the state prison system and evaluates the states-use system during the Depression and war years. The links between state and national anxieties over rising numbers of young white male offenders in the Depression years and the implementation of new classification procedures for white male first offenders are examined. These changes underscore that penal reform in Florida was designed first and foremost for white male inmates and consequently perpetuated the secondary and discriminatory treatment of black male and many female prisoners.

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PRINTED FROM FLORIDA SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (www.florida.universitypressscholarship.com). (c) Copyright University Press of Florida, 2020. All Rights Reserved. An individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in FLASO for personal use.date: 07 June 2020